I don't know how anyone else feels, but in my view, the SEA SNMP agent on 
Solaris is such an unreliable  pain, and Solaris itself is such a pain to 
administer, that if you have a choice, I would go with AIX.  SMIT alone is 
worth the price of admission, plus your SNMP operations will be more 
reliable, and finally, you will probably have fewer cores.  Solaris is 
notoriously more picky about null pointers and empty strings.  I cannot 
tell you how many Solaris-only cores we've fixed as a result. 

The only daemon difference I am aware of in NetView is nvpagerd.  The 
pager queue is in shared memory and Solaris doesn't allow us to expand it 
the way AIX does, so the pager has a fixed queue size on Solaris.  Not a 
problem usually, but possibly so if you send a lot of pages.  So the size 
was made configurable with IY29166.  Other than that, I am not aware of 
any other underlying differences. 

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
 





"Wilkinson, Iain D" <iain.wilkinson AT eds DOT com>
07/02/2002 03:09 AM

 
        To:     "'nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com'" <nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com>
        cc: 
        Subject:        [nv-l] AIX vs. Solaris

 

Folks,

In the big, wide, real world is there any difference between the of 
NetView
7.1.2 on AIX to it running on Solaris?

Regards,

Iain Wilkinson
Systems Management Group
Electronic Data Systems


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